Doyle Brunson Quotations

A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.

Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.

I still have the mentality of a 19-year-old mind.

May the flop be with you.

The key to No-Limit... is to put a man to a decision for all his chips.

It's not the cards that you have all the time that makes you a winner or a loser.

Show me your eyes and you may as well show me your cards.

Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing.

Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.

I now see what the really important things in life are and they don't relate to what I do for a living.

When you go card dead its torture just sitting there.

The thought of money and fame and all that is nice to have. But it's not what's really important.

What took me decades to learn, these kids can get on the Internet...What I learned by brute force, dealing out hands, they learn on computers. It tends to make for fairly technical players, but they make up for it with aggression, the kind that comes when you learn things fast.

So, if I had a mentor, it was Johnny Moss.

I can't believe how much money I lose betting on sports. "sucker born every minute". That's me!

When I was coming up through the ranks, not that many people carried a lot money of money on them. This was before checks and credit cards.

To start with you had to keep from getting arrested by the police. Then, you had to keep from getting cheated in the games. You also had to worry about collecting the money if you won. Then finally, after all that was said and done - you had to keep from getting hijacked.

There's no life like the life I've lived. You're free like a cloud floating up in the sky.

I once went a whole summer without seeing the sun. I would play all night, then sleep all day.

We never talk about gambling around my house.

Saw that I could make more money in one pot than what was in that entire paycheck selling a week of office supplies

Through the years I've never stopped doing things, thinking about things, and I still think young.

I know we'll be able to raise a lot of awareness for an issue that plagues our world and could have devastating consequences down the road if nothing is done.

Super System 2, I try never to play this hand.

It's like hitting the lottery. We've got more tickets than everybody, but you've still got to hit.